Introduction, by Francesco Pasquini

City’s Stomach is a short text – doubling as an exhibition press release – set in the year 2094. It depicts a metropolis that moves bodies through its infrastructure like blood through vessels, turning everyday life into the symptomatology of our time: repetition, cementification, hyper-functionality.

As the narration progresses, the figure of the artist as an intentional maker dissolves. Instead, the “exhibiting artists” are nonhuman or incidental forces – a pigeon, the rain, a property investor – whose gestures become conceptual works within the text. What begins as a cultural announcement becomes a diagnosis: dystopia as curatorial method, where sensation comes first and meaning arrives late, if at all, while the urban stomach keeps digesting.